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Aug 14, 1928 95 years old
turkologist
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About Mirfatyh Zakiev
- Zakiev Mirfatyh (?????? ????????) is a Türkology scholar, philologist, professor, and a Tatarstan public figure.
- He holds a Doctor of Philology, is a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Tatarstan Republic, and served as a chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Tatar ASSR (Chairman of the republican parliament in the Tatarstan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the former USSR). Zakiev conducted major scientific research in the field of the Tatar Linguistics, Türkology.
- For Zakiev's fundamental research in syntactic architecture of the Tatar language, academician B.A.
- Serebrennikov commented: "This is the first most full and logically faultless monograph about the syntax of the Türkic languages". Zakiev published several hundred scientific works, including thirty-five monographs, brochures, textbooks and instruction manuals for the Tatar language; a history of the Tatar school of Türkologists; and an ethnic history of the Turkic peoples, covering inter-ethnic and interlingual contacts, bilinguality and multilinguality.
- Zakiev claims that "proto-Turkish is the starting point of the Indo-European languages", that Sumerian, Ancient Greek, Icelandic, Etruscan and Minoan are languages of Turkic origin, and that the Sumerians, Scythians and Sarmatians were of Turkic origin.
- He is generally considered a pseudo-scholar (see Pseudo-Turkology).Zakiev served in a number of higher schools and institutes as a rector, director and department head (KGPI 1967-1986, IJALI 1986-1997), created Departments of Ethnography, Manuscripts and Textology, Lexicology and Lexicography, was instrumental in compiling a Collection of Monuments of History and Culture, and created a Tatar Encyclopedia.
- He headed the Scientific Commission of the Education Ministry of the Russian Federation for the philological sciences, and is a member of Presidium of AN RT. Zakiev created scientific schools in the fields of language, interethnic and interlingual contacts, bilinguality and multilinguality.
- Zakiev prepared thirty Ph.D.s and Doctors of Science.
- Twelve of his pupils became Doctors of Science and professors.
- Under his guidance the Department of Linguistics in the IJALI created the three-volume Academic Grammar of the Tatar Language, a multivolume Tatar Lexicology.
